Gizmodo:
It feels like people are always swearing on Twitter, huh? FastCo reports the work of a team of researchers from Wright State University in Ohio which analyzed 51 million tweets by 14 million english language users to figure out the dynamics of how exactly people use profanity on the social network.
"Fuck" is by far the most frequently used, accounting for more than one-third of the bad language recorded:
The most popular curse word is fuck, which covers 34.73% of all the curse word occurrences, followed by shit (15.04%), ass (14.48%), bitch (10.34%), nigga (9.68%), hell (4.46%), whore (1.82%), dick (1.67%), piss (1.53%), and pussy (1.16%).
Together, "fuck" and "shit"—and their variants account for nearly half of all the profanity on Twitter, and the top seven words account for more than 90 percent of tweet profanity.
Now that is some important research under way at Wright State, Wrong University. After seeing some facebook post from Sarah Palin earlier this week, I was wondering about how frequently cunt was used in online posts. Now I know.
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